In Deeper, John Seabrook, a staff writer for the New Yorker, takes us along his personal journey down the information highway. In the beginning of this pioneering adventure into cyberspace, our hero (seabrook) is a clueless newbie. He ends up an old hand, complete with arrow wounds to show off. When Seabrook is not narrating his own on-line adventures, he is writing an eyewitness history of a tumultuous period in the early history of a new medium, when the Net moved decisively from a geeky hobby to a part of mainstream popular culture. We meet major figures in the computer industry, catch the utopian feeling, get flamed, get laid, soar over the Net like Satan soaring over the Earth in Paradise Lost, join a virtual community and find out what daily life is like, lose the utopian feeling, adapt to the World Wide Web, and build a Web site.
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Deeper is a record of John Seabrook's wide-eyed romance, and eventual disillusionment, with the brave new world of cyberspace. Unlike most books on the topic, this one features little in the way of pontification: Seabrook is too busy absorbing the disappointments of online life, such as his first flame (which became the subject of a New Yorker article) and an abortive attempt at cybersex. This sane, funny, and charming book really does capture the lighter-than-air feeling one gets during an initial brush with new technology--and the morning-after feeling that follows.
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Seabrook, a staff writer for The New Yorker, explains the cyberspace phenomenon to old folks?i.e., anyone over 20?with this account of his virtual odyssey.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A simple de-flamatory philippic,
This review is from: Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Hardcover)
I liked it a lot. Why do some reviewers characterize an author as narcisisstic when he talks about himself once in a while? Give me a break. Well rounded perspective of one man's introduction to the cyberworld.
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Deeper and deeper, but somehow still quite shallow...,
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This review is from: Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Hardcover)
Deeper somehow manages to be quite literate, without being well-written. John Seabrook offers a technically well-constructed commentary on his experiences online, but his defensive tone turned me off. His relationship with technology seems quite religious in nature - simultaneously idolatry and uncomfortable. Not a book I'd recommend for the technologically literate reader, although those who prefer style to substance might enjoy it.
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A superficial tale of learning the internet,
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This review is from: Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Hardcover)
The theme is enticing - baby boomer is sucked into the depths of the net. You imagine a psychological thriller such as Polanski's 'Tenant'. What is found , though, is a rather pedestrian tale of one writer's introduction to computers (? mid life crisis). Such unrealized potential. Lots of boring reproductions (filler) of e-mail. Now John, don't get upset and flame me
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